Note 281 — Chapter IV · THE PEASANTRY (continued)
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Fitzherbert, Surveying: “I advertise and exhort in God’s behalf all manner of persons, that ... the lords do not heighten the rents of their tenants or cause them to pay more rent or a greater fine. A greater bribery and extortion a man cannot do than upon his own tenants, for they dare not say him naye, nor yet complain.” Norden, The Surveyor’s Dialogue, Book III.: “Lords should not depopulate by usurping enclosures, a thing hateful to God and offensive to man.”